Trouble at Fort Lapointe

10 best books like Trouble at Fort Lapointe (Kathleen Ernst): Kathleen: The Celtic Knot, Leyla: The Black Tulip, Betsy-Tacy and Tib, How to Be a Pirate, Isabel: Taking Wing, Kirsten's Boxed Set, Baby Island, Spring Pearl: The Last Flower, Cécile: Gates of Gold, The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

Kathleen: The Celtic Knot

Author

Siobhán Parkinson

Life is noisy and hard but full of love for 12-year-old Kathleen Murphy and her family. Kathleen dreams of living with her favorite aunt, Polly, far from her crowded home and the strict nuns at the convent school. She's surprised to find that she has a talent for dancing--and a chance to win the dance competition!...

Leyla: The Black Tulip

Author	Alev Lytle Croutier
ISBN	1584858311

Life in the Topkapi Palace harem follows its own rules and rhythms, and twelve-year-old newcomer Leyla has much to learn about this hidden world of women. When she reveals her skills as a gardener, Leyla is assigned to work with the Mistress of the Flowers. In the harem gardens, Leyla secretly plants...

Betsy-Tacy and Tib

Author	Maud Hart Lovelace
ISBN	0690138768

Three of a Kind Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Sometimes they quarrel with Betsy's and Tacy's bossy big sisters, but they never quarrel among themselves.They...

How to Be a Pirate

Author	Cressida Cowell
ISBN	0316155985

People said this book was funny...I didn't find myself laughing..Maybe it's due to my age but I got the idea that adults also found the humour in this novel amusing..Even if I didn't find LOL moments I still enjoyed the storyline though!

My one complaint if you own the Kindle version...The text...

Isabel: Taking Wing

Author	Annie Dalton
ISBN	1584855177

London, 1592

Girls must always be good and stay at home. But when you are a boy, the whole world can be your home. Men build houses and ships and sail off to discover strange new lands. But women must stay indoors, sewing stitches so fine that no one will ever see them. Our work is only visible if we...

Kirsten's Boxed Set

Author	Janet Beeler Shaw
ISBN	0937295760

I haven't read these books since I was a kid. I think I was ten when I got my Kirsten doll for Christmas. At the time, I was really into the 'Little House on the Prairie' books and I was really excited to get my doll.

Unfortunately, I actually had to return my doll soon after getting her when her eyelashes...

Baby Island

Author	Carol Ryrie Brink
ISBN	0689717512

My wife read this book to me while I was driving on a roadtrip. Her mom had found her childhood copy and sent it to her. It has to be one of the most awesomely bad books ever written. It's intended for children of course, but that doesn't make it any less terrible. It's some screwy adventure tale of two young...

Spring Pearl: The Last Flower

Author	Laurence Yep
ISBN	1584855193

After the deaths of her parents, 12-year-old Chou Spring Pearl is taken into the home of her father's wealthy benefactor. Unlike most Cantonese girls, Spring Pearl has learned to read and write, but she must now learn a new skill-how to survive in Master Sung's hostile household. While the Second Opium...

Cécile: Gates of Gold

Author	Mary Casanova
ISBN	1584855185

I read this book when I was young; as a younger me I found it a practically mesmerizing insight into the life of royalty in times of monarchal Versaille and utterly enjoyed reading about a girl who suddenly finds herself diving into the palace's world and discovering whether and where she belongs. The...

The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

Author	David Damrosch
ISBN	0805080295

Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this riveting story of the first great epic--lost to the world for 2,000 years, and rediscovered in the nineteenth century


Composed by a poet and priest in Middle Babylonia around 1200 bce, The Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed...

The Silent Stranger: A Kaya Mystery

Author	Janet Beeler Shaw
ISBN	1584859903

Kaya's village is preparing for the powerful winter Spirit Dances when an injured stranger arrives. The young woman doesn't speak, and no one can reach her but Kaya's beloved dog, Tatlo. Who is the stranger, and why is she so silent and alone? Will she bring harm to the village--or take Tatlo away from...

Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway

Author	Kirkpatrick Hill
ISBN	1584855207

Twelve-year-old Minuk is intrigued by the Hoffs, the American missionary family that has moved into her village. Although she has seen white men before, Minuk has never seen a white woman--or a white child. It soon becomes clear that although the Hoffs can speak the Yup'ik language, they don't understand...